Word: calf
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...woolen coat reduced from shoulders, $1; shortening sleeves of O.D. woolen coat 25 cents; collar cut down O.D. woolen coat, 75 cents; new collar for O.D. woolen coat, $1; O.D. trousers taken in st waist, 25 cents; O.D. trousers taken st waist down to crotch, 35 cents; calf of leg altered on O.D. woolen trousers 35 cents; canvas leggins taken in at bottom 25 cents; chevrons sewed on coats and shirts, 15 cents. These prices have been accepted as the lowest practicable to obtain and still insure good work...
...Boston theatre going public may well now kill the fatted calf, since "Pierrot the Prodigal" has returned after an all too long absence, and once again is this jewel of French pantomime to be seen at the Hollis St. Theatre. In an age of such thoroughness of stage production and action as the present, where hardly a thing is left to the imagination of the audience, the reappearance of this play can be nothing but a great stimulant to everyone. Those personal powers of visualizing which have laid dormant in most of us are awakened to splendid things...
...Lincoln, written at Washington on February 15, 1848, discussing the right of the President to act without consulting Congress, in time of war or threatening international complication. The other volume of Pope is a copy of the first edition of the 'Rape of the Lock,' in its contemporary panelled calf binding and larger than the copy in Mr. Lefferts's collection of Pope's works, which likewise now belongs to Harvard. The Fields copy lacks two leaves, but it has on a corner of the title page the name of a former owner, 'Ch. Lamb,' and the four missing pages...
...cannot yet be counted as a powerful figure. Duncan seemed to be deplorably weak. Gilman was out of the game with a sprained ankle, and there apparently was no substitute worthy to replace the big regular. Cowen, too, was hors de combat with an injured ligament in the calf...
...Performance of "Fattest Calf," by Hasty Pudding Club, Toy Theatre, Boston...